Omaha Local TV News Channels

Post by **Brad** » Mon May 07, 2012 11:14 am

OSILayer8Support wrote:Looks like they redesigned their website. KETV did the same thing a week or two ago. Wonder if WOWT did it too in response to KETV's change.

I don't care if one is in response to the other... they BOTH look much better. Way cleaner, simpler, and more organized.

Post by **BRoss** » Mon May 07, 2012 11:16 am

Brad wrote:
OSILayer8Support wrote:Looks like they redesigned their website. KETV did the same thing a week or two ago. Wonder if WOWT did it too in response to KETV's change.
I don't care if one is in response to the other... they BOTH look much better. Way cleaner, simpler, and more organized.

Completely agree!

jessep28 · Post by **jessep28** » Fri May 11, 2012 3:30 pm

Both redesigns look great. Although, that scrolling sidebar on WOWT kind of annoys me.

jessep28 · Post by **jessep28** » Thu May 17, 2012 6:26 pm

Next week on Channel 6, we'll speak with convicted car thieves who will give you tips on how to keep your car from being broken into.

http://www.wowt.com/home/headlines/BURG ... 44605.html

jessep28 · Post by **jessep28** » Thu Jun 21, 2012 12:52 am

If you need to contact Channel 6 by phone in the immediate future, you'll have to call a temporary number. A "cabling issue" has knocked out phone service to the station.

http://www.wowt.com/home/headlines/WOWT ... 07205.html

nativeomahan · Post by **nativeomahan** » Sat Jun 23, 2012 6:18 pm

Much like snipping an umbilical cord, that pretty much formalizes Channel 6's divorce from the rest of the real world, now, doesn't it?

jessep28 · Post by **jessep28** » Sun Jul 01, 2012 10:43 pm

WOWT has shipped Brian Mastre out west to Colorado Springs to help with their sister affiliate's coverage of the state burning down.

Post by **Brad** » Sun Jul 01, 2012 10:57 pm

Apparently WOWT cut off the Olympics tonight...

Linkin5 · Post by **Linkin5** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 12:05 am

Brad wrote:Apparently WOWT cut off the Olympics tonight...

Yeah they apologized a bunch of times. Also, I am pretty sure Jim Flowers smokes bath salts.

S33 · Post by **S33** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 9:14 am

I heard he wants to eat Mallory Maddox.

jessep28 · Post by **jessep28** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 12:24 pm

Brad wrote:Apparently WOWT cut off the Olympics tonight...

I'm sure KMTV doesn't feel so bad now for cutting off the end of the Oscars earlier this year.

Post by **Brad** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 12:27 pm

jessep28 wrote:
Brad wrote:Apparently WOWT cut off the Olympics tonight...
I'm sure KMTV doesn't feel so bad now for cutting off the end of the Oscars earlier this year.

Not that its acceptable, but I wonder how much of the work on these stations is automated. Someone probably forgot to turn the auto programing off. I have done Radio several times in the past year and almost all of the show starts and stops and the hard breaks are all automated.

thenewguy · Post by **thenewguy** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 7:59 pm

Tonight john knicely was discussing the orion space craft. he kept sayin it like "oreeyon" instead of "ohryan"

Bob from Omaha · Post by **Bob from Omaha** » Tue Jul 03, 2012 7:48 am

thenewguy wrote:Tonight john knicely was discussing the orion space craft. he kept sayin it like "oreeyon" instead of "ohryan"

It's a personal victory that he didn't pronounce it "Onion"

Post by **nebugeater** » Tue Jul 03, 2012 8:12 am

It is a good thing you have never mispronounced anything at all. I get that this is his job but it is live and it will happen to everyone. Just be glad it is still local and not canned and shipped in to the local station from a "news factory" located many miles from local where it is not a mispronunciation built rather no understating of the local names of town, streets, businesses etc. that get butchered every time of the few times I catch a bit of it.

Bob from Omaha · Post by **Bob from Omaha** » Tue Jul 03, 2012 9:20 am

nebugeater wrote:It is a good thing you have never mispronounced anything at all. I get that this is his job but it is live and it will happen to everyone. Just be glad it is still local and not canned and shipped in to the local station from a "news factory" located many miles from local where it is not a mispronunciation built rather no understating of the local names of town, streets, businesses etc. that get butchered every time of the few times I catch a bit of it.

I mispronounce all the time. My problem is that the state of the art in television news is the hiring of the lowest common denominator. I've met John Nicely & he is a very nice person. He is also not a journalist. He is a talking head. I doubt he has ever written his own copy or done any of his own research for a story. He is not unique of course and that's the saddest part of it.

S33 · Post by **S33** » Tue Jul 03, 2012 11:33 am

I ate Chipotle a table away from him - beat that.

Bob from Omaha · Post by **Bob from Omaha** » Tue Jul 03, 2012 3:53 pm

S33 wrote:I ate Chipotle a table away from him - beat that.

Oh yeah? Well I, um, I.....wait. Chipotle? Never mind.....

Post by **Brad** » Tue Jul 03, 2012 4:03 pm

If you didn't know... WOWT issued a "Weather Alert Day" today because its Hot Outside...

Post by **BRoss** » Tue Jul 03, 2012 4:56 pm

Brad wrote:If you didn't know... WOWT issued a "Weather Alert Day" today because its Hot Outside...

If they didn't tell me that, I'd probably just assume it was blizzarding outside.

MadMartin8 · Post by **MadMartin8** » Tue Jul 03, 2012 7:06 pm

The only reason I watch Channel 6 news is for Jackie Ochoa. :shrug:

Post by **Brad** » Fri Jul 13, 2012 11:48 am

Did anyone catch the amazing photo bomb on wowt last night? It was awesome.

Post by **BRoss** » Fri Jul 13, 2012 11:53 am

Brad wrote:Did anyone catch the amazing photo bomb on wowt last night? It was awesome.

No, what was it?

Post by **Brad** » Fri Jul 13, 2012 11:57 am

Its on my personal face book page if you can figure out how to get the video off it.

Basically a shirtless guy wearing a sailors hat smoking a cigarette stood behind the reporter acting goofy!

Post by **nebugeater** » Fri Jul 13, 2012 12:32 pm

On KMTV they would have been mistaken as the anchor!

Brad wrote:Its on my personal face book page if you can figure out how to get the video off it.

Basically a shirtless guy wearing a sailors hat smoking a cigarette stood behind the reporter acting goofy!

Collin · Post by **Collin** » Fri Jul 13, 2012 1:03 pm

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B1SnGq ... 1VOd0NVUDg

:lafcry:

Post by **Brad** » Fri Jul 13, 2012 1:19 pm

Collin wrote:https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B1SnGq ... 1VOd0NVUDg

:lafcry:

Awesome! Thats way better than the video I got!

Collin · Post by **Collin** » Mon Jul 16, 2012 10:21 pm

You can now watch WOWT live on the internet

http://www.wowt.com/live

jessep28 · Post by **jessep28** » Mon Jul 16, 2012 10:47 pm

Collin wrote:You can now watch WOWT live on the internet

http://www.wowt.com/live

I thought Mobile TV was the way of the future.

nativeomahan · Post by **nativeomahan** » Tue Jul 24, 2012 8:32 am

I am still rolling on the floor after seeing a promo just now on KMTV about their "Dried Up Coverage"...of the drought.

I would call them morons, but I don't want to insult morons.

Linkin5 · Post by **Linkin5** » Tue Jul 24, 2012 8:53 am

If you take puns away from local news they have nothing left.

Post by **BRoss** » Tue Jul 24, 2012 1:45 pm

It must be a slow news day. All three stations are here at my office covering our "Pizza Olympics" event.

iamjacobm · Post by **iamjacobm** » Wed Jul 25, 2012 12:58 pm

http://www.wowt.com/home/headlines/Hot- ... 49276.html

Channel 6 tried the experiment, putting more than a dozen raw cookie dough balls in the back window of a car. It was placed there about 3:00 pm and left there for several hours. Temperatures inside the car read almost 200 degrees at times. The surface of the cookies seemed fully cooked, but the inside wasn’t.

Channel 6 also tried baking a cookie, butter, ground beef and an egg on the concrete. Its surface temperature was 130 degrees. The butter melted in 10 minutes, the egg didn’t cook and the ground beef died out.

Thanks WOWT, we were all curious :lol: .

Omababe · Post by **Omababe** » Wed Jul 25, 2012 1:12 pm

iamjacobm wrote:Channel 6 tried the experiment, putting more than a dozen raw cookie dough balls in the back window of a car.

Back when I was in college we would do cookies on a bake sheet above a lamp. It did work. Kind of like the EZ-Bake Oven, if anyone remembers those.

Channel 6 also tried baking a cookie, butter, ground beef and an egg on the concrete. Its surface temperature was 130 degrees. The butter melted in 10 minutes, the egg didn’t cook and the ground beef died out.

When I was very young, I remember some kids trying to fry an egg on a hot asphalt parking lot. IIRC, it didn't work.

Bob from Omaha · Post by **Bob from Omaha** » Wed Jul 25, 2012 3:56 pm

Ok, one, they actually spent money on a story? I mean, have you seen the price of cookie dough lately?

jessep28 · Post by **jessep28** » Wed Jul 25, 2012 6:51 pm

People in Nevada must be laughing at us like we do with southern states when they get snow.

HskrFanMike · Post by **HskrFanMike** » Thu Jul 26, 2012 12:17 pm

iamjacobm wrote:http://www.wowt.com/home/headlines/Hot- ... 49276.html

Channel 6 tried the experiment, putting more than a dozen raw cookie dough balls in the back window of a car. It was placed there about 3:00 pm and left there for several hours. Temperatures inside the car read almost 200 degrees at times. The surface of the cookies seemed fully cooked, but the inside wasn’t.

Channel 6 also tried baking a cookie, butter, ground beef and an egg on the concrete. Its surface temperature was 130 degrees. The butter melted in 10 minutes, the egg didn’t cook and the ground beef died out.
Thanks WOWT, we were all curious :lol: .

Maybe they should try a brisket or ribs instead. Car-B-Que.

jessep28 · Post by **jessep28** » Thu Jul 26, 2012 5:20 pm

OSILayer8Support wrote:It must be a slow news day. All three stations are here at my office covering our "Pizza Olympics" event.

http://www.wowt.com/home/headlines/Goin ... 31796.html

jessep28 · Post by **jessep28** » Thu Jul 26, 2012 11:41 pm

Linkin5 wrote:If you take puns away from local news they have nothing left.

Speaking of puns in the news, these three headlines just happened to be grouped together when I ran a Google News search..

nativeomahan · Post by **nativeomahan** » Wed Aug 22, 2012 6:16 pm

Should we laugh or cry?

For the past day Channel Sux has advertised that they would carry the implosion of the Rosenblatt Press Box live on TV at 7 am. They played it up all during the morning news, with cut ins during the show.

Well, at about 6:57 they cut to commercials, and I switched to Channel 7, in time to hear the 1 Minute whistle, and then Boom, down came the structure. I switched back to Channel Sux and they were still running a commercial. Then the news returned with an apology of sorts for not being able to bring the implosion, but a promise it would be shown later.

I went on to work, with a chuckle. But this evening at 6 pm I watched John Knicely read a story about the implosion, with a video of a spectator describing his memories of Rosenblatt as dust settled across the background of the shot. No video of the implosion was shown. Only later on in the newscast, after the weather, did they finally show the implosion, completely separate from the story.

The head just spins. Is this a high school TV station?